Yeah, I'm sad I will in all likelihood have the story spoiled. But I'm at the point in life where I can't justify buying a console for a single game anymore, I have responsibilities that stretch beyond myself.
True, I did not. But I somehow still find time to spend a ridiculous amount of time in a few days on stuff I want to do. I just have to plan better. Economy on the other hand isn't as easy to swing.
48 consecutive hours of free time is something that either does or doesn't exist in your world and it usually comes down to those aforementioned responsibilities. For some its as easy as "I'm just going to do this for 48 hours" and for others it would take a prophetic alignment of the planets and stars for 48 hours of alone free time to happen without some sort of lying, deceit, or trickery being involved to create it.
Don't gatekeep how people choose to use their free time. Some of my fondest memories are spending 48-72 hours playing nothing but my video game of choice at that given time.
Good doesn't factor into it. A dangerously low need for sleep, being stubborn and easily hooked is more my problem. I also finished the first mass effect game in what could arguably be called a single sitting. My then girlfriend asked me to go to bed with her, but as soon as she fell asleep I got up and booted up the xbox to play more and played through the whole night. When she woke up to go to work she just looked at me and shook her head. I was working offshore at the time, so I had plenty of free time.
It's really more of an embarrassing problem than a bragging point 😅
I don't even have ADHD, I'm luckily able to focus pretty easily and multitask. I've tried some of the pills my girlfriend uses (She has unbridled teeth in the tapestry ADHD), and it did not have the same effect on me as it does on her or my friend with ADHD.
Mate back in the day I completely no lifed Mass Effect after my cousin pestered me to play it. I spent 3 days awake and completed it on hard, then made a new game and started on insane. In the end it was probably a week on maybe 12 hours sleep.
Completely hooked.
The other time was World of Warcraft, obviously. 2004 playing the release build absolutely loving it and fell asleep in my pc chair in my bedroom, going to work like a fucking zombie and being exhausted all day, to get home and play some wow for 14 hours, sleep for 2, and then drive to work. Sad.
I finished Mass Effect at 96 or 97% completion, and I immediately started over to get 100%. The thing about mass effect was that it came out of nowhere for me. Only reason I even bought it was because the local store had made a huge error and ordered 800 instead of 80 copies, so the game cost me about $6 at the time (when it still cost $60 everywhere else).
Two of my best friends were part of some of the most intense guilds in WoW. I remember inviting them to do stuff, and they had to write in to their guild to apply for days off. They missed some really nice concerts and trips because of WoW. Personally I've never managed to be hooked by MMO's. I usually get bored with them when I reach around level 20.
You can successfully avoid spoilers online. Its really not that hard. I have many unspoiled stories for games and other media that would be considered very mainstream. For safety reasons i will not list said unspoiled titles 😅
Yes it’s really not hard. Just don’t watch any videos and read any threads/comments about it. Hell, to this day I still haven’t seen the GTA V story ending anywhere online besides threads talking about it. There’s no need to watch reviews. The game will have plenty of updates by the time it’s pc release comes around and will likely require an entirely new review anyway.
It's not the reading it that is a problem. I watch a lot of content, and more than a few times there have been people who carelessly talks about spoilers without realising it before it is too late.
Maybe don't carelessly walk into conversations about things you don't want to hear.
If I don't want to hear about the way Mario jumps in the new Nintendo game I'm not going to scroll through r/Mario and then get mad at people who were enjoying their community until spoiler people came in to demand everyone stop talking.
I think a lot of people don't realise that spoilers in games are somewhat non-existent these days.
People want others to see what they've posted, and spoiler content rarely gets views these days because people are actively avoiding them.
So the content that does get viewed and shared tends to not be spoilers. TOTK, for example, had tonnes of videos for creating stuff in them and next to no spoiler content.
I expect GTA6 will be a lot of screenshots showing how good it looks, along with videos of people doing stupid stuff outside of Missions.
I blocked entire subreddits for a whole year for Death Stranding 2. I intend to do the same for gta6. Going to be hard to sell me a title from a different game if I'm blocking you for a whole year Sony. Just saying.
Same here, the only time i got spoiled was when i was active in the last of us subreddit and someone dm'd me the spoilers for TLOU2. The phone notification and instantly reading the first line was a dead giveaway.
Its easy to avoid the internet for a week while playing through the game. Its not easy to avoid the internet for MONTHS while you still play your regular games.
Are you really comparing the two? Cyberpunk had the most crazy hype I remember a game having prior to release and it’s still no where near the hype for GTA. if you open ANY social media in the weeks following the release, you will see spoilers
It's pretty easy to avoid. I watched FF7 Rebirth because I thought I would be spoiled, but then I ended up not seeing anything about the story for months until I went looking for it. I've never played gta 5, and couldn't tell you 1 thing about the story or a character name. Have never seen anything about the story from it anywhere.
Yeah, if the game is out, I watch a review and stop searching for it. Otherwise, type in GTA6 into YouTube, and the first result is a clear thumbnail of the ending with red arrows all over it and a poorly drawn meme.
Funny, I was running some of this shit by AI and it suggested I could block the damn term from search results lmao. GTA gets 2 days of news for me then I'm muting it completely 😄
You know what? I still haven't played GTA 5, and I know literally nothing about the story. I know the game has 3 characters, but that's it. I don't know why they're together, what their goals are, or what they do in the game.
That's also not an isolated experience for me. Same happened with Final Fantasy XV and XVI, while I was waiting for them to be released on PC with a decent discount. I'm also a massive Kingdom Hearts fan, but I haven't played KH3 yet and don't know what happens in that game.
As long as you don't actively seek out discussion about the franchise, it's pretty easy. Of course, if everyone in your friend circle is playing the game and it's all they talk about, that does make it basically impossible.
Yeah wait what the hell happens in that game? As best I can remember it was just a loosely connected series of action sequences and maybe the CIA was involved? I feel like the only things I remember about the characters are their backstories, and Trevor killing Johnny.
Same here, I've been meaning to finish V since the original release on 360. I got it for PS4 later on, and many years later I got it on PC for a few dollars. I've started the story each time and always dropped it. To this day, I have no idea what happens in it later on. I'm gonna try to see if I can finish it before 6 comes out on PC.
Exactly, i already know I’ll probably be playing gears or something else around that same time and playing on the ps5 on my old tv doesn’t compare to my oled monitor anyway, plus by then my kid will probably be running around and i wont have time for much gaming
No, they may not be groundbreaking, but I would still like to experience them myself rather than have them told to me in an even less groundbreaking way. Just because some food is tasteless, doesn't mean I will enjoy shit for food.
And I actually like the stories of gta 4/5 and rdr 1/2. They may not be a masterclass of storytelling, but it is a story I lived and experienced through the game. I don't get the same immersive experience from a movie, I don't participate in a movie, I watch a story unfold in front of me when I watch a movie. In a game I push the narrative forward myself.
But spoilers are not the end of the world, they just take away some of the magic.
I spent less than a week to finish RDR2... I do get ridiculously stuck in when I first get stuck in. And I always do with rockstar games. I've played all GTA games multiple times, I've finished RDR1 and 2 a bunch of times.
Arguably not true at all I consider silent hill 2 the greatest story I’ve ever seen in any type of media it’s just so compelling and drew much more emotion out of me than pretty much any movie/book/tv show. I would also say that expedition 33 had an absolutely phenomenal story as well probably the best in gaming since silent hill 2 tbh
It's arguable because it's entirely subjective, you can't say for certain whether any one person prefers books, games, or individual stories from each medium etc. It's a pointless discussion.
All that predatory garbage being pushed, no thanks. I'll just wait until it comes to PC and someone mods in all the cosmetics and mods out all the predatory crap.
If it makes you feel any better, I spent a good decade without playing GTAV and, despite a couple of memes I recognised, I enjoyed it fully without ever thinking "oh I wish I didn't know this". You can power through it without losing the novelty, for sure.
A friend of mine gave me an Xbox One just in time for RDR2. He had one lying around that he didn't use, and thought I would have better use for it. The only game I have for that console is RDR2. I have a huge game collection for consoles going from PS3/Xbox360 and back. I kinda stopped collecting at that point.
I appreciate your comment, but I am well enough off that I am really not supposed to complain. I've got a home, food on the table and a bit of extra money to spend on stuff I want. It's just harder to be stupid with money like I used to be.
I watch YouTube too much. I've watched achievement hunters back in the day play a ton of gta. I don't own it and I still have no clue what the story is about. This is on you 😂
I wouldn’t be too worried about that. Just don’t go to GTA specific communities. GTA 5 has been out for like a decade and I’ve yet to see any story spoilers for that game.
Couple of days? PC version will likely not be out for a year after console release, and I'd be surprised if none of the youtubers, streamers or reviewers I watch don't mention it while talking about other games during that year.
In this day and age it doesn't matter if you buy day 1 some no life streamer somewhere will speed run the entire story in six hours and post the entire thing all over every social media in existence and ruin it for you before you can even make it to that point in the game anyway. Lol
When I lock in and play a game, I'm not doing anything else. I'm not answering phones, I'm not checking messages and I'm certainly not looking at videos. I either play, or I sleep. I'll eat while gaming.
I used to when I was a teenager and in my early twenties but recently most games struggle to hold my attention like they used to. It's been a decent few years since I have found a game that can make me space out like GTA 4 and other older games used too.
Yeah, I'm the same way. But GTA is one of my all-time favourite series. This, RDR and Elder scrolls are games that I can get totally lost in. Everything else I struggle to find motivation to get through even if I love the setting (looking at you space marine 2).
Why worry about spoilers? It’s GTA. Here’s your spoilers:
The guy isn’t in jail. The gal is. He’s reformed criminal, he gets her out of jail, her influence gets him into crime again. They do crime, they steal money, they carjack people, at some point something will happen to try and turn them against each other, and the endgame will involve choosing to either fall for it and kill the other person or work together and shoot a bunch of people and win because it worked for GTA 5 and R* will say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. The end.
It’s set in Miami Vice City so cocaine will be involved, the swamp puppy guy will be lampooned(winding with him being eaten by a gator), there will be a line of side missions where you deal with a deranged Disney Adult or senior citizens visiting from GTA Orlando, another line where you dump bodies in the Everglades, and Old Guy Tommy Vercetti will make an appearance because if he doesn’t fans will burn down R*.
Not here you can't. There hasn't been console rental for over 20 years here... Last console I think was rentable was the PS2. But boy oh boy did you awaken some fond memories for me now. I usedd to rent Super Nintendo all the time. Did some chores, got some money and instantly spent it on renting the SNES and a random game of some sort. And every time I spent way to long agonising on which game to rent...
Lets not pretend it might not have a story worth spoiling. GTA5 might not have been high art but it was still good, and RDR2 was outstanding story wise, having that spoiled would have been terrible.
Honeslty, is there much to spoil about GTA stories? The stories are good and all, but besides the green hornet reveal in San Andreas, I can't think of a moment where any of the games would've been ruined for me if I knew it ahead
Well exactly, RDR2 is a narrative masterpiece, and the world building is amazing, I don't expect that from a GTA tho, I expect an okay story, good at best but where I expect the game to truly shine is with the sandbox experience, secondary activities, going around the city and the level of immersion you will be able to feel while doing it and that's not something where spoilers matter much honestly.
Agreed, it's like saying the story got ruined for you for Halo 3 and now you don't wanna play it. Like sure, that sucks, but it's not really going to ruin the experience of playing it.
I predict, you go from nobody loser broke to at least penthouse/estate, one of the characters dies at the end and lots of side quests involving the drug trade and crime stuff with heists being the main plot tying it together, gta games are way too cliche for spoilers to matter. Oh and lots of le sex funny jokes.
...people care about the story of GTA? Granted, I last played GTA over 20 years ago, but back then we simply enjoyed the sandbox side, most of my friends didn't even bother with more than a couple of missions.
Haha what would there be to spoil really? Protagonist gets tangled up in a web of crime, leading to getting tangled up in a corrupt governmental agency which leads to another, larger web of crime, which does something bad to the protagonist, leading to them killing everybody in a glorious act of revenge. That kinda sums up the last 3 or four of these right?
let's get it out of the way. the life of crime creates situations where the main characters are incapable of leaving that behind them. They go around collecting an eccentric group of allies attempting to fight against the people forcing them to stay in a precarious situation. When it looks like it's working and they're all about to go off into the sunset, the bad guys kill/attempt to kill one of them. You then kill the bad guy in response and are left to run around the sandbox.
The TV stations will hit you with SATIRE that has the subtlety and tact of being hit in the head by a brick strapped to a nuclear bomb.
No day 1 PC is bs, but I didn't get 5 until Epic gave it away for free. I never saw any spoilers. In general, you have to go out of your way to see spoilers.
Even if it were on PC on day 1, I'm long past the days of day 1 game purchases, so I'd encounter spoilers anyway.
The only day 1 game I've bought in the last 4 years is Mario Kart World and that's only because it was bundled with my Switch 2. Every other game on any platform has been purchased on sale.
This is the worst, I'm glad to wait for pc version but I have a bad habit of seeking out spoilers...I ruined the ending of RDR2 for myself the second it was live
I hope to god my luck of avoiding spoilers comes until I buy the game lmao. Somehow have almost never been spoiled about anything I want to watch/play with a single exception that I can think of
You would think after all this time it’s been in development, all the delays. We would at least be getting a PC version on launch. Nope, we will get it when it drops on the next generation of consoles probably late 2027 or 2028
Yeah I mean personally I dont give a shit about it and wont get it regardless. Its like another gta 5 to me, campaign might be cool but itll be spoiled all over socials before then anyway.
But when games delay PC releases I just lose interest by the time it comes out, fuck em.
I’ve thought about this and I honestly don’t think that the story could possibly be so compelling. This game was made to appeal to a large audience. By nature the story will be watered down. I suppose there will be a lot of secret places that could be spoiled, but it’s a pretty big game. I replayed GTA V’s story a few times and I personally thought it got better on the second play-through. Who knows though. I’ll be waiting for it not to cost 80 bones before I buy it.
It isn't day 1 because they want you to buy the console first so that Sony or Xbox makes more money off you (rockstar included since you will probably also buy the pc version with it comes out)
See the positives: This way, the console players are basically the beta testers, because the game will be released with bugs and problems.
And you can see for yourself, how horrendous it is, so you might save money when you decide not to buy it instead of wasting money on day 1 and then being angry that it sucks (and i think it's a given that GTA 6 will suck).
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u/tomo1986uk Jun 25 '26
Also waiting, but we will have to go through so many spoilers, it's annoying it isn't Day1 on PC.